Improved p-domain rate control and perceived quality optimizations for MPEG-4 real-time video applications

Militzer M, Suchomski M, Meyer-Wegener K (2003)


Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Original article

Publication year: 2003

Publisher: ACM Press

Edited Volumes: Proceedings of the ACM International Multimedia Conference and Exhibition

City/Town: New York, NY, USA

Pages Range: 402-411

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Event location: Berkeley, California, USA US

ISBN: 1-58113-722-2

Abstract

The paper describes bit rate control for a one-pass MPEG-4 video encoding algorithm in order to make it suitable for real-time applications. The proposed control method is of low computational complexity and more accurate than previous approaches. In result, the rate-control buffer size which highly influences the latency between a video sender and receiver can be decreased significantly. Additionally, a solution is proposed for increasing the perceived quality by introducing an advanced bit allocation scheme and by exploiting activity masking. The proposed algorithm has been implemented in the XVID codec, a representative of the MPEG-4 standard. Experiments prove that the proposed algorithm is highly accurate and provides improved perceived visual quality. Moreover, the implementation outperforms other up-to-now bit rate control algorithms.

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APA:

Militzer, M., Suchomski, M., & Meyer-Wegener, K. (2003). Improved p-domain rate control and perceived quality optimizations for MPEG-4 real-time video applications. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (pp. 402-411). Berkeley, California, USA, US: New York, NY, USA: ACM Press.

MLA:

Militzer, Michael, Maciej Suchomski, and Klaus Meyer-Wegener. "Improved p-domain rate control and perceived quality optimizations for MPEG-4 real-time video applications." Proceedings of the ACM MM'03, Berkeley, California, USA New York, NY, USA: ACM Press, 2003. 402-411.

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